New light in the dark - a proposed multidisciplinary framework for studying functional ecology of groundwater fauna

Groundwaters provide the vast majority of unfrozen freshwater resources on the planet, but our knowledge of subsurface ecosystems is surprisingly limited. Stygofauna, or stygobionts -subterranean obligate aquatic animals - provide ecosystem services such as grazing biofilms and maintaining water qua...

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Main Authors: Saccò, M., Blyth, Alison, Bateman, P., Hua, Q., Mazumder, D., White, Nicole, Humphreys, W., Laini, A., Griebler, C., Grice, Kliti
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74666